Coco Chanel's Number One Don't? JEANS!
By Tracey Lomrantz,Glamour magazine
Even the most highly fabulous among us take a style misstep here and there, right? So we suppose Coco Chanel can be forgiven for saying that jeans were "horrible"...
Karl Lagerfeld recently spoke at the International Herald Tribune's luxury conference (yep, the same one where he made Victoria Beckham erupt into a fit of giggles!), and according to Vogue UK, he made no bones about mentioning the two biggest mistakes his house's namesake, Coco Chanel, made in her career:
"The first was when she said 'Not one man I have spoken to likes a woman in mini skirts'. I think no one dared to tell this 86-year-old lady that miniskirts are great and really sexy," he says. "Number two was when she decided blue jeans were horrible. This was the fashion of the world at that partuclar moment - it was the Sixties. No one wanted to be told by an old lady that miniskirts and jeans weren't chic. The result was that she lost her power and in the end no one cared about what she did."
Well, I'd certainly say "no one cared about what she did" is a bit overblown--I'm among many who practically worship at the church of Coco!--but it's interesting to see that she was resistant to the now-ubiquitous casual trend. Of course, she's not the only one. Remember when Joan Collins called jeans totally unglamorous? And given that she was from a generation that had to fight just to wear pants, I'm not totally surprised she didn't embrace denim.
Do you think Coco's reproach of jeans was surprising? What would she say about them if she were around today? Do you think that we've become much too reliant on jeans in our wardrobes? Discuss!
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